TV Pick: Yes, Prime Minister

The coalition may be in a shambles, but at least there's one
place it has had a positive effect: writers' rooms. After a steady
decline in the last decade, political comedy is back with a bang:
series four of the The Thick Of It, Sky Atlantic's scathing Veep and tonight the elder statesman of political TV
satire returns 25 years after it last graced our screens. Following
an excellent recent stage revival, original writers Antony Jay and
Jonathan Lynn's peerless Eighties comedy Yes, Prime
Minister begins afresh with a new cast - the excellent David
Haig plays the PM and Henry Goodman as his adviser Sir Humphrey -
but the comedy is as current as ever. Ingeniously, tonight's opener
sees the PM calling a conference on how to deal with Europe.
Cameron and Clegg, look away now…

Yes, Prime Minister starts tonight at 9pm on Gold.

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Oliver Franklin is Assistant Editor of Wired and a GQ contributor. Follow him on Twitter @olifranklin.